Kamm Building (Southwest Pine Street near First Avenue)
Minor White, Kamm Building (Southwest Pine Street near First Avenue), ca. 1939, gelatin silver print, Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project, public domain, L42.3.36
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- Title
Kamm Building (Southwest Pine Street near First Avenue)
- Related Titles
inscribed: Kamm Building
- Artist
- Date
ca. 1939
- Medium
gelatin silver print
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image/sheet: 13 3/8 in x 10 3/8 in
- Inscriptions & Markings
title: Kamm Building, graphite, bottom left
signature: Minor White, graphite, bottom right
- Collection Area
Photography; Northwest Art
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Courtesy of the Fine Arts Collection, U.S. General Services Administration. New Deal Art Project
- Accession Number
L42.3.36
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
- Place Made
Created in and depicts: Portland
Created in and depicts: Oregon
The Kamm Building, completed in 1884, extended along the north side of Southwest Pine Street between Front and First avenues, and was one of the city's finest examples of iron-front architecture. White's viewpoint from across Pine Street is unusual: He did not move to the edge of the floor beneath him for an unobstructed view of the Kamm Building. Instead, he incorporated the heavy, geometric masses of adjacent buildings into the composition along with the unstable surface below, suggesting urban density and decay.
- Exhibitions
2018 In the Beginning: Minor White's Oregon Photographs, Phase 2 Portland Art Museum
